Every accountant knows that audits or reviews of your client’s tax returns, or financial compliance obligations can sometimes be unavoidable. When an audit hits, this is rarely a reflection of the work put into preparing the return and is more often due to a specific...
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Offering advisory services? Why your first engagement needs to be a scoping session
by Ethan Cooney | Feb 9, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management
Before engaging your clients with new services, there are two crucial steps you can’t miss. Now more than ever, clients are looking to you as their trusted advisors to support them through challenging times. Rather than simply calling on you for compliance lodgments,...
Tree Change – In the Accountancy Profession
by Magnus Yoshikawa | Feb 9, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management
Current world circumstances have definitely made one rethink one’s values. Interestingly, coincidingly, we are seeing ‘tree change’ conversations increasing. There is this Practitioner (name removed for privacy reasons, but you know who you are) that of late, has left...
The Future of the Financial Reporting Function
by Danielle Nye | Feb 9, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management
Accounting firms are essential to businesses and not-for-profit organisations, particularly when managing one or more components of an entity’s financial operations. Most accounting firms, however, don’t have the skills to prepare statutory financial statements or the...
Setting Strategies – Peripheral Activities Are Important!
by Peter Towers | Feb 4, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Practice Management
Accountants who are responding to the challenge of proactively supplying a range of Business Advisory Services to clients should include on their list of duties a number of activities which may be referred to as “peripheral activities” but which, in many businesses,...
Free eBook: How to get buy-in from the C-suite
by Brad Lynch | Feb 4, 2021 | Accounting Software, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Technology
eBook: Pitching for success with IT projects Your new IT project is brilliant – you know it will improve efficiency and transform the working lives of those who use it. Even so, if the CEO and CFO can’t see the investment’s outstanding business advantages, your...
WHAT’S BEEN ‘APPENING: NEW BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTING APPS FOR YOU AND YOUR CLIENTS
by Iain Enticott | Feb 3, 2021 | Business Services, Featured Articles, Financial Services, Technology
The world is constantly changing around us and so are the new and innovative apps and software available for SMEs and the accounting industry. ‘Change’ means improvement and 2020 delivered some apps that will booster your overall productivity in 2021. However, the...